All interstellar ice articles
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News
Searching for the chemistry of life on exoplanets
The protoplanetary discs that surround young stars and give birth to planets are chemical labs that can reveal which planets might host life
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Research
Building blocks of life made in space ice simulations
Complex sugars – including the ‘backbone’ of RNA – have been created in lab-made interstellar ice
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Research
Space-like conditions give rise to metabolic precursors
Study suggests that vitamin B3 and quinolinic acid could have originated in interstellar ices